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Barbara Kingsolver – amerykańska pisarka, eseistka i poetka.

✵ 8. Kwiecień 1955
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Barbara Kingsolver: 119 cytatów0 Polubień

Barbara Kingsolver: Cytaty po angielsku

“He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Źródło: The Poisonwood Bible

“When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.”

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Barbara Kingsolver

“I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Źródło: The Poisonwood Bible

“I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.”

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Barbara Kingsolver książka Prodigal Summer

Źródło: Prodigal Summer

“I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.”

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Barbara Kingsolver Animal Dreams

Źródło: Animal Dreams

“Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Źródło: The Poisonwood Bible

“Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.”

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Barbara Kingsolver książka Flight Behavior

Źródło: Flight Behavior

“No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.”

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Barbara Kingsolver Pigs in Heaven

Źródło: Pigs in Heaven

“Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.”

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Barbara Kingsolver książka Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Źródło: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

“… nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.”

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Barbara Kingsolver książka The Lacuna

Źródło: The Lacuna

“Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Źródło: The Poisonwood Bible

“For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Źródło: The Poisonwood Bible

“Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Źródło: The Poisonwood Bible

“the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners”

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Barbara Kingsolver książka Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Źródło: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

“This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.”

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Barbara Kingsolver książka Prodigal Summer

Źródło: Prodigal Summer

“Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Źródło: The Poisonwood Bible

“That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands we could practically feel it rising up from the ground. I don’t know how a person could ever describe that scent.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees

Źródło: The Bean Trees

“He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Źródło: The Poisonwood Bible

“Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down." - Mrs. Brown”

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Barbara Kingsolver książka The Lacuna

Źródło: The Lacuna

“We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Źródło: The Poisonwood Bible

“Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.”

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Barbara Kingsolver

“you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece”

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Barbara Kingsolver książka The Lacuna

Źródło: The Lacuna

“This Forest eats itself and lives forever.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Źródło: The Poisonwood Bible

“One of the very first things I figured out about life… is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because you have to live in the same world either way, and if you're hopeful, you have more fun.”

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Barbara Kingsolver

“Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Źródło: The Poisonwood Bible

“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees

Animal Dreams.
Animal Dreams (1990)
Wariant: The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
Źródło: The Bean Trees

“Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.”

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Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Źródło: The Poisonwood Bible